Thoughts About Rudeness

In the Disney 1942 animated feature film Bambi, Thumper the bunny wisely said, “If you can’t say somethin' nice, don’t say nothin' at all.” 

That means: don’t be rude. 🙊🤐

He forgot to add, “If you ain't gettin' at decent reply, don’t bother askin' at all.” 

This means: don’t accept rudeness either. 🙉😤

Mandi Bunga Cara Moden 🌸

With this. LOL.

 octenisan® wash lotion – hypoallergenic antimicrobial hair

and body wash that I used from my head to my toes. 🧖‍♀️

Am dressed in my electric blue hospital gown now (as seen in the reflection) and will just be lounging on the hospital bed ala Miss Rose from Titanic. You know, while waiting for someone to draw me. 😏😂

Standing Outside Your Door

...waiting to know if I should laugh or cry. 😅 

This 4-day medical cliffhanger was no fun at all. Truly, The Wait is the worst part la, I tell you. Sitting around just stressing about the many possible scenarios that await me once I walk through those doors and say, "Hi, Doctor." Ugh. Really can go crazy just thinking and thinking while being none the wiser.

Thank goodness I've got some company today. 🥰

We're planning on finishing The Queen's Gambit while we wait!

Trying Out A New Parenting Hack

One that allows me to do what needs to be done without having waste a lot of time just waiting around doing nothing before I can continue doing something. It's all about efficiency, bruh! 

You see, JJ was taking FOREVER to finish his dinner tonight. And after a long day of cleaning house and doing whatever it is mothers do, ain't no mom wants to spend forever sitting around waiting for some chewing to be done. 

JJ with his mouth full.

I was tired, cranky, and starting to get impatient. I just wanted to go home, take a nice, hot shower and watch me some The Big Bang Theory in front of the telly! So, I did what I had to do – get creative.

🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

Desperate times; desperate measures.

#letsgetcreative #thinkingoutofthebox #nolimits

Only 5 spoonfuls left to tackle. 🖐 Totally manageable. Much less overwhelming than a messy plate full of food, right?? Sometimes you gotta #breakitdown to bite-sized portions for your audience, you know. Literally, in this case. LOL. Big bonus is that we got to countdown to the last spoon, too, which turned out to be a pretty fun way to bring dinner to a close.

Ah, the ideas mothers (have to) come up with

when kids take forever to finish dinner. 🙄 

Khua Char Boh?

Is it just me or does The Husband's current iPhone lock screen wallpaper look like it's the outline of the face of a sexy girl with sexy hair (ala Jessica Rabbit from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"), resting her sexy chin on her sexy knees? 😂😏

Same, right?? Yes? No? Maybe so?

Making Sure Fiction Doesn't Turn Into Reality

The Husband: Eh, your hair not bad ah... Still got a lot.

Pam Song: Ya ya. I'm also surprised. I thought sure no more di by now. 

*2 seconds later*

The Husband: Why don't you just shave it all off?

Pam Song: Why!? Later la. So inconvenient to go out without hair. Now still ok ma. 

The Husband: Don't wait until you look like Smeagol. You know Smeagol?? "My preeciiiioouuusssssss..." 🤪

Pam Song: 😠😡

Kanasai betul dia.

#1 On The Suffering Scale

Caught a bug while at the hospital two days ago. Fever brought with it the flu which – as fate would have it – has developed into full blown sinusitis because Life's like that, right? She likes to kick you when you're down.


Sinusitis is one of those things that I just cannot tahan la. The pain that radiates from the inside of my face just steals all my energy and kills me. From the inside out. Ala Aliens. 👽 #80smoviereference But I be like Ma'am Sigourney!! I will survive!!! 💪💪💪 Eventually.


Anyway,  I look like crap now la. And I feel like crap's crap if there ever was such a thing. Told The Husband last night... In order of suffering:-

1. Sinusitis – it totally tops the list.
2. Cancer. 😂

The Unfortunate Truth

I'm two episodes into Her Private Life (2019) and so far, it's been pretty entertaining. The lovely Park Min Young is as funny, pretty and charming as ever. The male lead – Kim Jae Wook who previously acted as a supporting cast in Coffee Prince (2007) – makes for an interesting character. Definitely worth a watch! Anyhoo, this was my takeaway from tonight's episode:

"If you’re going to stay at home and act all pathetic,

come to my cafe and work part time. People can

always betray you but money never does." 

– Lee Seon-Joo (played by Park Jin-Joo)

in Episode 2, Her Private Life (2019)

That's one (very sad) way to put it. I'm not sure if it's because of the translation or the cultural differences at play, but this is why I like Korean dramas:

They say funny things that can be

pretty meaningful if you bother

to put some thought into it. 

It's not really money that will never betray you la. If you really think about it, the bottom line is that YOU and your EFFORTS will never betray you. If you're down in the dumps because someone has hurt you or has betrayed you or has let you down, just stop moping around, stop crying your heart out, and get up and DO something. Do something for yourself. Because you can only really count on yourself to make you happy. 

My K-Drama Journey

Growing up, I had only watched "Winter Sonata" and "Autumn In My Heart". (Song Hye Kyo really doesn't age!!) And that was waaaay back during my high school years – during the days of VCDs and boxy TVs. My Ah Ma's helper took a liking to them and bought the VCD box sets to bring home to Indonesia, which I borrowed and binge-watched before she went back. 😅😂


My next venture into the K world came circa 2017/2018 when The Husband suggested we watch Train To Busan (2016) on Netflix one night. It was a one-off. We thought it was pretty good but we went back to English movies and sitcoms after that. But then, something happened. More and more Korean dramas started popping up on my Netflix page. 😳

Then one day, I saw this image

that made me decide to click:

And that was when it happened. I would say that I officially picked up watching Korean dramas when Netflix started screening "Something In The Rain" back in 2018. After that, I just fell into that endless black hole called K-drama and never found my way out. Haha. Since then, I've watched a "few" others. This be the full list in the order in which I watched them:

1. Something In The Rain (2018)
2. Goblin a.k.a Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016-2017)
3. Big (2012)
4. Coffee Prince (2007)
5. Finding Mr Destiny (2010)
6. My Love From The Star (2014)
7. Oh My Venus (2015-2016)
8. Master's Sun (2013)
9. Strong Girl Bong Soon (2017)
10. Oh My Ghost (2015)
11. What's Wrong With Secretary Kim (2018)
12. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (2016)
13. Descendants Of The Sun (2016)
14. Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth (2016-2017)
15. Nice Guy a.k.a The Innocent Man (2012)
16. Healer (2014-2015)
17. Suspicious Partner (2017)
18. Remember (2015-2016)
19. Hyde, Jekyll, Me (2015)
20. Kingdom (2019)
21. She Was Pretty (2015)
22. I'm Not A Robot (2017-2018)
23. Strongest Deliveryman (2017)
24. The Heirs (2013)
25. Touch Your Heart (2019)

It's been about a year since then and now,

I've just started "Her Private Life" (2019).

I have to admit, I struggled through some of them. Namely, "Coffee Prince", "My Love From The Star", "Nice Guy" a.k.a "The Innocent Man", "Hyde, Jekyll, Me" and "The Heirs". Granted, most of these I've mentioned aren't very new so I guess they're outliers in my list because the standard of K-drama has improved significantly since then. Anything before 2010, just don't bother. Cannot make it.


Why do I like Korean dramas? They do romance really well. And not in a lame, corny kinda way. They're just really, really good at developing love stories. In one episode, you can laugh, cry and get angry. Hahaha. Lighting and soundtrack also unbeatable. People raved over Crazy Rich Asians but guess what? I watched it and thought, "Yerrr... so B-grade wan. All my K-dramas have better make-up, better lighting, better acting and better supporting soundtrack." 😂 #truestory


So yes. If you haven't tried watching Korean dramas and you've got nothing else to watch on TV since "Game of Thrones" is over and "Stranger Things" hasn't re-started, go watch! These are my top recommendations in no particular order:


1. Goblin a.k.a Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (2016-2017) – fantasy, romance, comedy

2. Descendants Of The Sun (2016) – drama, romance, comedy

3. What's Wrong With Secretary Kim (2018) – comedy, romance

4. Strong Girl Bong Soon (2017) – comedy, action, fiction

5. I'm Not A Robot (2017-2018) – drama, comedy, romance

6. Oh My Venus (2015-2016) – comedy, romance

7. Healer (2014-2015) – drama, action, romance

8. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (2016) – drama, comedy

You can thank me later. 😘

Lightsaber Vs. Life Saver

On and off, JJ watches Booba on YouTube. I'm not a super big fan of it but sometimes, Mommy just needs a break so... whatever goes, man. Whatever goes. #badmom 🤪 (Except Peppa Pig and that weird Spiderman-Elsa-have-a-baby nonsense. Those two confirmed BANNED in my house! 😠😡😠😡😠) Anyhoo, he happened to stumble upon some Booba Star Wars episode and got really excited. He rushed over to The Husband and said:


JJ: Papa Papa! Look! Booba has a life saver just like Star Wars!!!

😳😅😂

This is why I love 4yo brains.

It's funny how they find it perfectly logical that Darth Vader
and the Jedi Knights use life savers to fight and kill. 🗡⚔️🔪

JJ's Thoughts On Rapunzel From Tangled

I love my drives with my kids (when they're well-behaved and quiet 😆 #conditionallove LOL!). They remind me of the good time when melsong used to ferry me around in her PCH682 faithful ol' Proton Saga. And now that my kids are older, we listen to songs sometimes and chat sometimes. Sometimes, we chat about songs, too. 

So, today, in the car, while we were
listening to Tangled OST, JJ said...

JJ: *seriously* Mommy?

Pam Song: Yeah?

Ethan: Rapunzel doesn’t shower. She is a dirty girl.

Pam Song: 😅

Hahahaha. Quite true leh.

Cinderella showers in the morning. Little Mermaid did, too, when she first got on land. Mulan took a bath in the river. The rest... I can't remember somehow. Did Belle shower before her big date with the Beast? Hmmm... 🤔 

No Censor; No Volume Control

JJ: *at the top of his lungs in a crowded eatery* Mommy, I want to watch the movie with one girl and many naked boys!!!

Pam Song: 😵😵😵 *dies*

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Well, that's Mulan + Motherhood for you, folks! 😅

Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol, Be There On The Double!

JJ knows the way home. So when I made a detour today to put gas in my empty tank, this conversation ensued:


JJ: Mommy where are we going?

Pam Song: We're going to pump petrol.

JJ: *eyes light up* We going to see PAW PATROL???

LOL. Urm, no.

JZ & JJ's Favourite Part Of A Day Out

Was very happening today. Brought the kids to a kiddie gym with some friends in the morning, had a long lunch with them at a Chinese restaurant, then zoomed off to Starling Mall on our own thereafter to catch an afternoon movie. Yup, that's 2 malls in 1 day. #achievementunlocked


We went all the way there cos we wanted to try MBO's new Kecil Hall. They were screening Smurfs  – something the kids haven't watched before – but unfortunately, tickets were fully sold out. We ended up watching The Boss Baby instead. I loved it! We've actually Popcorn Time-d it for the kids a couple of times over lunches at home but I've never actually sat through the whole movie myself.


The Husband came to join us for dinner at Uptown after the movie. (He did his guy thing today and went looking for an electric guitar to buy with a new friend from church.) It felt like we hadn't seen him all weekend since he started getting more involved in church. This was his attempt to connect with the kids over dinner.


The Husband: *asks JZ* Did you have fun?

JZ: Yes. 

The Husband: What was your favourite part of the day? 

JZ: *thinking hard 🤔* The movie. 

The Husband: *turns to JJ* JJ, what was your favourite part of the day? 

JJ: *says distractedly while playing on the phone* Eating. 

😳😳😳

Say wha-??

We thought we heard him wrongly so

The Husband asked again. And this time... 

JJ: *loudly plus some irritation* EATING!

😂😂😂

Hahahahaha. This boy cracks me up!

Impromptu Date Night

A long overdue one at that. Haha.

But with two kids under 5 and no gramps in town to help with the babysitting, it really ain't no surprise. As it is, tonight is already a blue-moon miracle. LOL. I can confidently say that we put off going to the movies about... I dunno... 20 billion times? 😳😅😂 Hahahaha. ANYHOO...

Sleepy eyes, home specs, bad hair – DON'T CARE. Let's Logan!

My Problem With The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

The Husband posted that status update a few days ago. As you can see, it got many likes. BUT... it is inaccurate. Mummy is #1 la. Trust me. I tested it out, ok. He likes me more than Mickey Mouse. Nevertheless, we're not here to talk about my husband's inaccuracies. I'm here to talk about Disney's inaccuracies.


See, the Disney Junior channel is celebrating Mickey and Minnie's birthday throughout the month of November. Apparently, their birthday falls on 18 November every year. Yes, BOTH of them. TOGETHER.

???

How can?! Are they twins or what now??

But then... wait. Aren't they boyfriend and girlfriend, too??

OMG, what is Disney subliminally teaching our kids???

So, I got to thinking and here's what I have to say about the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse programme that goes on the Disney Junior channel at 7PM daily:

1. Mickey and Minnie share the same birth date... and a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, too? So, are they family or are they a couple? Twin incest ah???

2. Goofy and Pluto are both dogs but one can walk upright and talk, the other can't. Why ah? Such inequality!

3. And if Goofy's a dog, why the heck is he dating Clarabelle COW??? Interspecies mating?!

4. Daisy and Donald are two dating ducks. How come one has no problem speaking clearly and the other one clearly has a speaking problem???

5. And why doesn't Donald ever wear pants but always covers himself from the waist down whenever he appears in a towel??

Disney, why your characters so senget wan?!

Later my son watch already then confused, how??

"If You Had 8 Days Alone All To Yourself, What Would You Do?"

Saw that on an ex-colleague's FB status

and got to thinking. What would I do?

See, after my son popped out, Me Time became a thing of the past. Life took a turn at Crazy Junction and drove straight into Psycho Town, Madsville and conveniently set up camp. My days and nights are a hazy blur of feeding, cleaning poop and more feeding and cleaning poop. A bigger part of me feels so very blessed to be a mother and have a child of my own... but a teeny tiny part of me misses the days when nobody else dictated how I should utilise my time but myself.


So, yes. This friend's status update got me thinking... longing. And sure, I guess the results would be somewhat different if I had attempted to answer this very same question 9-and-a-half weeks ago. But right now... this is it:

If I had 8 days alone all to myself, I would...

(in no particular order)

1. Sleep
2. Read
3. Take a long bath that includes a scrub
4. Go for a facial
5. Blog
6. Shop
7. Date The Husband
8. Go catch a movie at the cinema

What would you do if you had

8 days alone all to yourself?

Les Misérables (2012)

The only way to watch this musical is at the cinema – in the dark, on the big screen, with surround sound. (Or in London or on Broadway, of course. =p) To be honest, I didn't thinks so earlier in spite of how much some friends have gushed about it online. Was just planning to download and watch it on iPad. Harhar. How blasphemous. =p But this *points below* c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y changed my mind:

Unfortunately, I don't know when

a visit to the cinema will be possible. :-/

A Thousand Years (The Light Room Version)

Artist: Christina Perri (Feat. Steve Kazee)
Song Title: A Thousand Years (The Light Room Version)

Christina Perri performs her song "A Thousand Years"

in an exclusive recording session live at The Fortress in

Los Angeles, CA for The Live Room on The Warner Sound.

The day we met, frozen I held my breath
Right from the start, I knew that I'd found a home for my...
Heart beats fast, colours and promises
How to be brave, how can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

[CHORUS]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still, beauty in all she is
I will be brave, I will not let anything
Take away what's standing in front of me
Every breath, every hour has come to this

One step closer

[CHORUS]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

Mmmm...
Woo ooo...

One step closer
One step closer

[CHORUS]
I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more


Not a big fan of Perri's lazy drawl in this version but still, it's hypnotic and totally bewitching all the same. Love the acoustic touch max. Was nice that she included the first two lines, too. I wonder why they weren't in the original version of the song. Hmmm... To be understood when I finally watch Breaking Dawn Part 2?

Garrett's Popcorn Shops – A Chicago Tradition Since 1949

First tasted the crunchy, caramel goodness of Garrett's popcorn back in February 2011 when Karaoke Queen brought back a pack of it from Singapore for those of us at KRPG to tuck into. Enjoyed it then but... I wasn't totally in lurrrve with it, ya know? Just am not the biggest fan of popcorn although I don't mind having it every once in awhile.

So... when Chatty Lass told me she was going to get some from KL for her dad in Penang, I half-heartedly tumpang-ed her buy, too. But only out of layan-ness and maybe some greed and gluttony. That's all. Haha. The "might as well lah" mentality lah. Not really cos I was craving it or cos I really liked it all that much.

But guess who ended up

loving it max – THE HUSBAND!

He had never tasted Garrett's popcorn before this and was very impressed with its taste. Haha. And I tell you, this man now ah... once pop, cannot stop wan. #curitagline No kidding. He pretty much wiped out a quarter of the pack in one sitting while watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! with me. @_@

Ok, fine. To be fair, I ordered the smallest pack available lah, so it wasn't exactly a h-u-g-e pack to begin with. =p But still... it's a LOT of sweet, caramel-y popcorn to eat at one go, if you ask me. Haha.

RM17 for the smallest pack of Caramel popcorn from Garrett's.

I've always associated popcorn to movies. And even now, we do snack on our little stash of popcorn whenever The Husband and I are in bed watching iTunes movies on his iPad. But no way in hell can I ever picture myself buying Garrett's popcorn – tasty as it is – to snack on in a movie at the cinema. Heck, it costs more than a movie ticket! @_@

Eat gold meh? Cheh.

Traditional, high quality, zero preservatives, fresh from the kitchen – whatever lah. I personally doubt I'll be buying Garrett's popcorn very often. It's the price that's a big turn-off, really. I just can't justify spending so much on popped corn. :-/ A few bucks cheaper and it'd be a totally different story.

Anyway, here are some Easy-Macro™ pics

I shot of Garrett's popcorn via my iPhone 4s.

I think I can safely conclude that

this popcorn tastes better than it looks. Haha!

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